Never listen to anyone who holds up New York as an example of dating paradise.

L.A. was actually the best big city I've ever lived in for dating. The insane obsession with image is something to joke about and bond over when you met a fellow sane person. Of course you don't go for socialite models and actresses; you might as well make a rap about how you shouldn't date strippers. And much as people bitch about traffic, it's actually the best city for being able to drive anywhere relatively quickly. Compare that to New York where dating anyone living more than 3 miles away not directly on your subway line is practically a long distance relationship.

I can't rate this for hitting that spot where you appreciate it being brought to your attention but it's just so horrible.

If by limitation you mean Gearbox discovering the game they had farmed out was unfinished shit and they had 4 months to scramble putting together something for the deadline where the only goal was having the game not explode your system into flames, then yeah they accomplished what they set out to do.

But out of all the games to skimp on atmospheric lighting (something every other game has gotten right for almost 10 years) with cheap effects you'd expect in a 1950s movie, Aliens was not one of them.

The best solution would have been to just not make another more time travel sequels and just have the 2nd movie take place in the future.

Imagine how awesome it would have been if we got an Alien/Aliens thing going where the sequel takes the focused thriller original then successfully turns it into a big action movie while retaining elements that made the original work? Movie magic.

Here's an interesting video how they basically lied with the demo showing pre rendered footage passed off as gameplay. All sorts of fancy lighting effects completely absent in the final product.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6lGXDM3LGnk#!

To see how truly sad the lighting is, skip to 1:40:07 of this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_SlgRZ1ycq0

They actually try and trick you into thinking there's lighting on the wall, but it's actually just a painted on 2D texture like some kind of cheap movie background mural. It's like something out of a Build engine game.